Compassionate, Specialized Counseling in Birmingham, AL
A team of specialized therapists helping individuals and couples find healing, growth, and stronger relationships — in person in Birmingham
and online across Alabama.
You’re carrying something heavy. You don’t have to carry it alone.
Maybe you and your partner still love each other but keep landing in the same painful conversation. Maybe you’re preparing for marriage and want to build it well from the very start. Maybe a loss or a hard season has left you struggling to find each other again. Or maybe you’re facing something heavier — the discovery of a betrayal, or an addiction that has quietly taken more than you ever meant to give.
Wherever you are, you’re in the right place.
Insights Counseling Center is a team of specialized therapists in Birmingham, Alabama. We help individuals and couples through the full range of relationship and personal challenges — from strengthening a good marriage to recovering from betrayal, addiction, and trauma. Many of us have walked hard seasons in our own lives and marriages, and we understand the way through because we have had to find it ourselves.
You are not alone — and real, lasting healing is possible.
What To Expect When You Reach Out
Taking the first step is often the hardest part. Here’s how getting started works, so there are no surprises.
Step 1 — Reach out
Call, email, or request a therapist through our contact page. Tell us a little about what’s bringing you in. There’s no script, and nothing you need to have figured out first.
Step 2 — Get matched with the right therapist
We’ll pair you with a counselor whose training fits your situation — whether that’s betrayal recovery, addiction, or strengthening your marriage — and at a fee that works for you.
Step 3 — Begin the work
Your therapist will help you understand what’s happening and build a plan. Early on, we often recommend meeting weekly or bi-weekly for a stretch to build momentum, then spacing sessions out as things steady.
How We Can Help
Each area below is a focus of specialized training and real experience for our team.
Not sure which one fits? Reach out — we’ll help you find the right place to start.
Infidelity Affair Recovery
Has an affair shattered the trust you built? With specialized support, couples can move through betrayal toward honesty, repair, and a stronger bond.
Marriage Counseling
Has your marriage lost the closeness it once had? You can rebuild communication, trust, and a deeper connection.
Sex Therapy
Struggling with intimacy or sexual concerns in your relationship? Compassionate, expert care can help you reconnect.
Sex Addiction Therapy
Has sex or pornography taken more from your life and relationships than you ever intended? You can break the cycle, overcome shame, and recover.
Couples Therapy
Caught in the same painful conflict again and again? Learn to understand each other and reconnect at a deeper level.
Premarital Counseling
Getting ready for marriage? Build the communication and connection skills that set couples up to thrive.
Therapy for Betrayal Trauma
Reeling from your partner’s betrayal and struggling to feel like yourself again? You can process the pain, steady your footing, and heal.
Couples Intensives
Need focused, dedicated time for your relationship? Our couples intensives create space for deeper progress, faster.
Discernment Counseling
One foot in, one foot out of the marriage? Find clarity and confidence about the right next step — before deciding.
Why Insights Counseling Center
Insights Counseling Center was founded by Tal and Teresa Prince — married more than 30 years — out of a conviction shaped by hard-won experience: that the help available to most couples simply wasn’t enough. They learned it in their own marriage and their own recovery. They had been as intentional as they knew how to be, and still felt the gaps — and they kept seeing it around them: couples doing real work to heal whose marriages were quietly ending anyway.
In its earliest days, Insights was Tal on his own — its founder and, as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, its only counselor. What had begun as lay ministry alongside couples in 2000 had deepened, over the years, into pastoral counseling, and then into fully licensed, certified clinical care. Tal and Teresa didn’t stop at good intentions; they pursued the training the work demanded.
That training is the most rigorous in the field. Tal and Teresa are both Certified Sex Addiction Therapists, and between them they hold the premier betrayal trauma certifications, through both IITAP and APSATS. Teresa is also a Certified Gottman Therapist, and the practice’s work draws on the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and PACT. Insights is a practice of specialists, not generalists, by deliberate choice.
Along the way, they discovered something that still shapes everything Insights does. The work of rebuilding a marriage after betrayal — the deepest, hardest repair there is — turns out to be the same work that strengthens any relationship. It helps couples just starting out. It helps couples decades in who have drifted apart. The skill it takes to restore a marriage at its worst is exactly the skill that makes a good marriage stronger.
That conviction is why Insights became a team. David joined in its early years, bringing a depth of experience drawn from treatment-center care — walking with clients through their most desperate and despairing moments. A Certified Sex Addiction Therapist himself, he helped Insights carry its most complex work as the practice grew. Tal and Teresa have continued to bring on counselors who share that depth of training and that commitment to couples — so whoever you meet with, you’re working with someone equipped for the real work. Wherever your relationship is, you’ll be met with deep expertise, discretion, and care.
Common Questions
What does Insights Counseling Center specialize in?
We are a specialized practice. Our deepest experience is in betrayal trauma, affair and infidelity recovery, and sex and pornography addiction recovery — alongside a strong relationship-counseling team offering marriage counseling, couples therapy, premarital counseling, and discernment counseling. We also offer individual therapy for trauma and related concerns.
What’s the difference between marriage counseling and couples therapy?
They overlap, and many people use the terms interchangeably. We think of marriage counseling as support and strengthening for married couples in a hard season, and couples therapy as the deeper end of the work — for relationships carrying long-standing hurt or stuck patterns. If you’re not sure which fits, we’ll help you decide.
How do I know if my partner has a sex or pornography addiction?
It’s less about the specific behavior and more about the pattern: secrecy, broken promises to stop, escalating use, and the sense that it’s taking a real toll on your relationship and daily life. If that feels familiar, our Sex Addiction Therapy page explains how we help — and you don’t need a label or certainty to reach out.
Do you take insurance?
Insights is a private-pay practice and is not paneled with insurance providers — a choice that lets us focus fully on your care and keeps what you share private. Most insurance plans also don’t cover marriage and couples counseling, since it isn’t tied to a medical diagnosis. We’re glad to provide a superbill you can submit for any out-of-network reimbursement you may be eligible for.
Are your counselors faith-based?
Many of the people we serve come to us through churches and from a faith background, and our therapists are glad to integrate faith into your care if that’s important to you. It is never required or assumed — you are equally welcome here whether or not faith is part of your story.
How do I get started?
Reach out by phone, email, or our contact page, and we’ll match you with the right therapist for your situation. You can also schedule a free consultation if you’d like to talk things through before committing.
Insights also offers Neurofeedback, Family Therapy, Financial Therapy, Group Therapy, Teen & Young Adult Therapy, and Assessments.
You Don’t Have To Stay Where You Are
Whatever brought you here — betrayal, addiction, distance, or simply the desire to build something stronger — the next step doesn’t have to be a big one.
Reach out, and we’ll help you find your footing.
Birmingham, AL Office
200 Cahaba Park Cir # 214,
Birmingham, AL 35242